acpi_ibm(4): new radio kill switch (readonly) sysctl

[Rong-en Fan]

On 4/18/07, Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> wrote:
> Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > As pointed out by Henrik Brix Andersen, I adds a sysctl entry
> > that shows the status of radio kill switch found on some ThinkPad:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/acpi_ibm_killswitch.diff
> >
> > dev.acpi_ibm.0.killswitch = 0 means the switch is off. It seems that
> > no acpi event will be generated when the value changes (actually,
> > my x60 does not generate any events when I presses FN+something).
> > Otherwise, we can hook it in devd.conf and remove wireless driver when
> > kill switch is on...
> >
> > Any comments?
>
> Seems fine to me.  But as to the name of the sysctl -- it should be more
> logical.  How about renaming it to dev.acpi_ibm.0.radio_enable and when
> 1, the radio is enabled?  Even if you have to invert the logic of the
> ACPI method, it would make more sense to users.  They don't need to know
> what's going on under the hood.

Good idea. I updated the patch:

http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/acpi_ibm_radio_switch.diff

If you have ThinkPad other than X60, please help test this.

Thanks,
Rong-En Fan

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> Nate
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